RE: Article on plane spotting

I have got a lot of stick in the past but most ppl pass me off for what i am – my grandparents live in deepest Suffolk and have taken me off the top of my head to Stansted, Mildenhall, Lakenheath, Woodbridge, Alconbury, Ipswich, Clacton and Beccles (all when were open)- and my dad has sometimes unwittingly taken me to airshows at Church Fenton and Elvington, but also regularly to Leeds (which i also bus), Manchester and even Sheffield, East Mids, Wittering and Liverpool, Caenafon in passing, and they always set aside a couple of hours on holiday at the local gateway.

I agree with Dan – when i was in Lanzarote i hired a bike and as it was a school tip there were 2 ppl outta 8 who had never flown before and they were asking everything about it – whats he doing, where we going, how fast, which is our plane? and they were genuinly interested and as i went out nearly every day to catch early arrivals and departures at Arrecife 15 minutes away by bike i even took 3 of em down on mornings and they weer amazed wit the scanner (obviously i kept the notebook hidden and was storing them on my fone). But the same has happened with mates askign about y it is quicker home from florida than going etc and i think that with most ppl the facination of how 300 tonnes of metal can b thrust so fast up in to the deep blue yonder is there.